06/26/2023

💎Student's Name: Sujeong Yeom
💎Date: 06/26/2023
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📝 TODAY'S LESSON:
Course: Article English
Title: Sushi chain sues high school student who licked soy sauce bottle for $480,000
Link: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/09/asia/sushi-chain-sues-boy-licked-soy-sauce-bottle-intl-hnk/index.html
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🔍 VOCABULARY WORDS

📌lick (verb) - to move the tongue across the surface of something

Example: He licked the chocolate off his fingers.

📌footage (noun) -  refers to a recorded or filmed material, typically in the form of a video or film, that captures a specific event, scene, or sequence

Example: The news report included footage of the dramatic car chase captured by a surveillance camera.

📌legal counsel (noun) - refers to a person or a group of individuals who provide legal advice and representation to someone involved in a legal matter.

Example: The news report included footage of the dramatic car chase captured by a surveillance camera.

📌dismiss (verb) - to decide that something or someone is not important and not worth considering. // When a judge dismisses a court case, he or she formally stops the trial, often because there is not enough proof that someone is guilty

Example: Let's not just dismiss the idea before we've even thought about it. // The defense lawyer asked that the charge against his client be dismissed.
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🛠️ SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION

✖You said: It's expensive than I expected.
✔Better say:  It's more expensive than I thought / expected.

✖You said: The student’s lawyer said to company diminish the complaint.
✔Better say: The student’s lawyer told/urged the court to dismiss the complaint.

✖You said: One high school student did non hygienic behavior in the sushi restaurant. He film it and upload to the streaming site.
✔Better say: One high school student engaged in unhygienic behavior at a sushi restaurant. / A high school student did something unhygienic at a sushi restaurant. He filmed it and uploaded it to a streaming site.

✖You said: The sushi company thought because of that video, the customer reduce for the restaurant so they lost money.
✔Better say: The sushi company believed that due to the video, the number of customers reduced, resulting in financial losses.
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🔴 Homework:
Please take note of what you learned in this lesson and apply it in your future conversations.
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📝 NEXT LESSON:
Course: Debate English
Book: Express Yourself 1
Title/Page: Let’s Talk Funny Question 2 (page 49)